Everyone remembers the one who fled.
From the girl next to the job offer with bad timing, the decline can be cruel as much as it can be educational. For Dallas CowboysSean Peyton is often considered the head coach who escaped. Once an offensive coordinator of cowboys under Bill Bâlls, Payton was considered the next great cowboys coach. Luckily, Parcels stayed over a year too long and Payton jumped the ship a year too early, mainly killing the dream.
By looking at the current situation in Dallas, it is difficult not to think about what could have been again. In the past 13 months, cowboys have had some desirable coaches in their staff and if they had played things differently, they could have had a considerably different configuration today.
After losing against Green Bay in the playoffs in the most embarrassing way as possible a year ago, many thought that McCarthy was a lock to fire. The team was poorly prepared, not focused and not motivated. It was an indictment on a head coach that throughout his stay in Dallas could not win a match in the playoffs against a team with a record of victories.
If the cowboys had shot McCarthy after this loss of packers, Dallas could probably have had Dan Quinn as head coach in 2024. Not only thatmping McCarthy would have unleashed Brian Schtotenhe as an offensive coordinator. McCarthy never let Schottenheimer call games during their time together and he was generally considered to be the offensive of McCarthy.
Instead, the cowboys remained with McCarthy one more season, opening the door from Quinn and Germinate the rival commanders of the NFC East to complete one of the greatest franchise reversals in the NFL.
There is also an alternative reality in 2025. Let’s say that the cowboys remained with McCarthy and 2024 took place as it did. But instead of raising Schotenheimer to the head coach, the cowboys raised Mike Zimmer rather.
Zimmer made progress on the defense of Dallas in his year as a defensive coordinator. He survived a litany of injuries and instilled a discipline in a notoriously unruly unity. He will reason with a healthy list and a few new parts, the defense of the cowboys could bounce back in the rows of an elite in no time.
Like the example Quinn a year earlier, raising the defensive coordinator of the head coach would not necessarily direct Schotenheimer outside the city. Schottenheimer wanted to call games and, according to most accounts, was not a high demand coaching prospect this winter. It goes without saying that simple control of the offense would be enough to keep it on board in the predictable future.
In this scenario, the Cowboys could have raised the favorite of Al Harris fans to take over as a defensive coordinator of Zimmer or even brought the current coordinator Matt Eberflus. It would still be the defense of Zimmer, but would add additional coaching talents to the franchise.
In the two scenarios, Schottenheimer directs the offensive, it’s just the defense that is in different hands. Theoretically, the cowboys could have had their cake and eat it too.
Maybe everything worked for the best.
Quinn had his chance to withdraw a dirt franchise and the cowboys dodged a coach whose qualifying series ended with another defensive fusion.
Zimmer was not the most daring head coach of Minnesota, so maybe he would not be an excellent option for cowboys. Based on the percentage of victory won possible, his fourth decision Finished in the middle of the pack (A worse spot than cowboys from 2014 to 2021) and he could have put Schottenheimer under his thumb, because many Schotenheimer coaches had done it in the past.
It is impossible to know how things would have happened, but it is interesting to look back and imagine how things could have been.
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This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Alternative reality: Cowboys could have been led by Dan Quinn, Mike Zimmer as opposed to current path
